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Georgeos Makropoulos, Vice-President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), has stated, in response to accusations put forward by Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov that the today's election of FIDE President were unfair, that it was an attempt to blacken the name of the President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

On September 28, fourteen leaders of various oppositional forces of Georgia sent a joint statement to the President of the Council of Europe, Chairman of the Venice Commission and to David Bakradze, Chairman of the Georgian Parliament, demanding to take action against adoption by the parliament of the new Constitution.

On September 28, Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of Russian President in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), said, speaking at the inauguration ceremony of President of Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov, that the Caucasus is no longer the area of inter-confessional and interethnic conflicts, but is becoming a united and economically prosperous region.

Suicide bombers blow themselves up in Northern Caucasus at the background of deepened split in "Imarat Kavkaz"; Vice-President of Abkhazia survives after another attempt; and the head of Ingushetia loses his advisor, - look these and other events in the review of the week of September 20-26, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Law enforcers of the Krasnodar Territory have revealed a person who spread of rumours about terror acts to be committed in Krasnodar on the Day of the City - September 25. It is Nikolai Evenko, 27, a former leading specialist of the Municipal Institution "City Bureau of Outdoor Advertising and Information".

The Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow has sanctioned arrest of Igor Provkin, former senator from Kalmykia, suspected of sexual abuse of Moscow female student, the press service of the Court has reported today. Thus, the Court has satisfied the yesterday's petition of the investigation.

On Saturday, October 2, at 2 p.m., the city of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, plans to host a rally, where the organizers plan to protest against inefficient actions of the authorities in their fight against extremism and human rights violations.

The native of Chechnya, who was detained on September 27 in Western France, is kept behind bars within the investigation of terrorist activities, said the Paris Prosecutor's Office.

In the course of special operations conducted in Kaspiisk and Makhachkala fourteen persons were liquidated; they were blocked in private houses and, according to power agents, rendered armed resistance. Currently, special-purpose fighters start inspecting the premises, where the alleged militants had hid.

The Chechen capital hosts a charitable action aimed to help children-oncology patients. It was initiated by President Ramzan Kadyrov and is held by Spiritual Administration of Moslems of Chechnya, together with the management of the "Grozny City" retail and entertainment centre. According to doctors, it is impossible to establish the exact number of cancer patients in the republic.

Participation of Issa Khashagulgov, a resident of the city of Karabulak, who was detained on September 25, in the terror act, committed on September 9 in Vladikavkaz, was not confirmed, as reported by the Security Service of the Republic of Ingushetia.

Ten residents of the Ingush village of Ekazhevo charged of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train in 2009 were presented new charges by the investigation - of blowing up the same "Neva-Express" train in 2007.

On September, 28, a coalition of non-governmental organizations held an "action of silence" in front of the building of the Parliament demanding to start a public discussion on the draft of the new Constitution of the country. They also started a signature-gathering campaign under a special appeal.

On September, 28, "Ara" movement and a civic movement of refugees in Georgia held a warning action near the mayor's office. Its participants called for the authorities to meet their obligations undertaken before international organizations, in particular, to create a database of unemployed and homeless people and provide them with job and dwelling.

Public prosecutor's office of Volgograd region has confirmed the accusation resolution against Alexander Shtokolov, ex-prosecutor of Sredneakhtuba district, who according to the investigation's version had promised assistance to an entrepreneur in granting him a legal estate for four million rubles.

Russian-speaking oppositional party "For human rights in integrated Latvia" (FHRIL) won a lawsuit in the Administrative district court against Riga municipal Duma which had forbidden a piquet of the adherents of renaming Johar Dudaev street.

Informational center of National counter-terror committee (NCTC) reported that during two special operations going on in Kaspiisk and Makhachkala today ten gunmen have been killed.

In the evening on September 27, unidentified persons opened fire on the base of the frontier unit deployed in the centre of Nazran. Nobody was hurt.

At today's parliamentary hearings at the standing commission of the National Assembly of Armenia on science, education, culture, youth and sports on discussing the draft amendments to the Laws "On the Language" and "On General Education", Armen Ashotyan, Minister of Education, said that the government gave up the intention to amend the Law "On the Language".

On September, 27, operative agents detained three natives of Chechnya within the boundaries of an operation against a supposed terrorist network. DCRI, the French department of counter-intelligence, is carrying out the investigation.